The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best AuthorsM. W.. Dodd, 1853 - 432 pages |
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... friendship in constant repair . - Dr . Johnson . ACQUISITION .-- An unjust acquisition is like a barbed ar- row , which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish , or else will be your destruction . - Taylor . ACTING A PART . - It is ...
... friendship in constant repair . - Dr . Johnson . ACQUISITION .-- An unjust acquisition is like a barbed ar- row , which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish , or else will be your destruction . - Taylor . ACTING A PART . - It is ...
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... friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest , and to make a good countenance without the help of a good will . - Sallust . AMBITION , ITS TOILS , & C. - Like dogs in a wheel , birds in a cage , or squirrels in a chain ...
... friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest , and to make a good countenance without the help of a good will . - Sallust . AMBITION , ITS TOILS , & C. - Like dogs in a wheel , birds in a cage , or squirrels in a chain ...
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... friendship ; redoubles love ; and united with justice and gen- erosity , becomes the secret chain of the society of mankind.- M. de Scudery . COMPLAISANCE . Complaisance , though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral ...
... friendship ; redoubles love ; and united with justice and gen- erosity , becomes the secret chain of the society of mankind.- M. de Scudery . COMPLAISANCE . Complaisance , though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral ...
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... friendship , in admonishing their friends with freedom and confidence , as well of their er- rors as of their danger.- Bacon . FRIENDS , WHO ARE . - Thou mayst be sure that he that will in private tell thee of thy faults , is thy friend ...
... friendship , in admonishing their friends with freedom and confidence , as well of their er- rors as of their danger.- Bacon . FRIENDS , WHO ARE . - Thou mayst be sure that he that will in private tell thee of thy faults , is thy friend ...
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Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors Tryon Edwards. FRIENDSHIP . - Be careful to make friendship the child , and not the father of virtue : for many strongly knit minds are rather good friends than good men ; so , although they do ...
Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors Tryon Edwards. FRIENDSHIP . - Be careful to make friendship the child , and not the father of virtue : for many strongly knit minds are rather good friends than good men ; so , although they do ...
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